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Security News for the Week Ending February 5, 2021

Are You the Victim of Covid Fraud? As if Covid wasn’t bad enough, there are widespread stories of people getting tax forms for their Covid unemployment benefits -benefits they never applied for and never received, but which are considered taxable income. In California alone, crooks stole at least $11 billion in unemployment benefits by stealing […]

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Security News for the Week Ending November 6, 2020

TikTok Ban – Remember That? Well now that the election is over – at least the voting part – we can get back to the important stuff like whether our kids can create 30 second dance videos on TikTok. The President signed a memo a couple of months ago to add trade pressure on China […]

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Security News for the Week Ending October 16, 2020

5 Eyes Ask For Crypto Backdoor – Again Law enforcement does not like it if they cannot snoop whenever they want. It has been a problem since encryption started to be used by the masses. The CIA, for example, even went to go so far as to BUY the Swiss encryption company Crypto AG, insert […]

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Security News for the Week Ending September 4, 2020

Centurylink Routing Issues Lead to Massive Internet Outage Last Saturday night/Sunday morning, Centurylink had a bit of a problem, either taking down or severely impacting web site such as Cloudflare, Amazon, Steam, Twitter and many more. Just because a system was designed to stay operating in case of a nuclear attack does not mean that […]

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Security News for the Week Ending August 28, 2020

Ransomware is an Equal Opportunity Business As American businesses deal with ever increasing ransomware attacks, larger ransom demands and ransom and extortion wrapped up together, we are not alone. Not that the fact that we are not alone should make us feel better. A new Iranian hacker group is using Dharma ransomware to go after […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending July 31, 2020

Many Cyberspace Solarium Commission Recommendations Likely to Become Law The Cyberspace Solarium Commission was a blue ribbon commission that made recommendations to Congress earlier this year on improving government cybersecurity. It appears that many of their recommendations are being added to the National Defense Authorization Act, which is “must pass” bill to fund the military. […]

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